conclusions according to the results, revision and modification of the care plan in the experience of stillbirth seems necessary to improve mental health in these mothers. according to suggested strategies, midwives and health care providers are health professionals who can effectively and properly care for stillborn mothers. results analysis of participants’ viewpoints and their opinions about...

The title for the conference has caused me a little dissonance. In the mental health field, which is the focus for this presentation, Ministers announced earlier in the year that care in the community is to be ‘scrapped’. As a result of what they perceive to be the ‘failure’ of the system of support, the previous Government’s policy of community-based mental health care is no longer to be given...

We highlight key differences between the present work and an interpretable, latent state model introduced by (Lian et al., 2014). In it, the model has one sequence of latent (K binary events) states (e.g., progression in a movie); each user experiences the same sequence of latent states but may react differently, resulting in a user-specific intensity function that produces a response to the la...

Religiosity and spirituality have been long investigated for their positive or negative effects on mental health, with mixed results. The author examines different associations and study methodologies, and describes criticism of the findings. Then, religious coping is explored and recent research on the inclusion of religious elements within therapeutical practices are reported. Finally, psycho...

Purpose: Involuntary mental health admissions remain a highly contested area in law, policy and practice. There are growing concerns about the effectiveness and potential harms of using coercion to enable treatment. These concerns are heightened by the worldwide shift to recovery oriented care, which emphasizes the importance for mental health consumers experiencing selfsufficiency, control and...

Introduction Loss to follow-up in randomised trials can cause bias, compromise study power, and affect the generalisability and reliability of results [1]. Many strategies are used to try to retain participants, however little is known about trialists’ experiences of implementing such strategies, or their perspectives of effectiveness. The complexity of these experiences and perceptions may inf...

The world has a new disease: successful e-health pilots that are ended before the actual product or service commercialization phase. It is an epidemic disorder that seems to spread rapidly. This paper searches for a remedy against this disease. By exploring five successful cases where e-health went beyond the pilot phase, we hope to explorer some best practices that may show Africa the way to i...

Bank with the intensive collaboration of the many Bank staff working on public sector and governance challenges. The role of the PSGB is to develop and update the Bank's strategy in public sector and governance work, to manage expert staff strategically, to manage the Bank's knowledge on public sector and governance, and to maintain effective partnerships. The preparation of this Approach has b...

Global health is a varied field that comprises research, evaluation and policy that, by its definition, also occurs in disparate locations across the world. This forum article is introduced by our guest editor of the Medicine for Global Health article collection, Gretchen Birbeck. Here, experts based across different settings describe their personal experiences of global health, discussing how ...

Objective/purpose Outpatient management of food allergy is suboptimal. Few studies have compared allergists’ and patients’ perspectives on food allergy management. Our goal was to assess patients’ and caregivers’ education experiences, learning needs, and confidence level in managing food allergy; and to examine allergists’ teaching priorities, challenges, and strategies for caring for these pa...